The
Standards Organisation of Nigeria has arrested two Chinese nationals, Taolung
Shen and Xu Jing Yau, who were said to have dealt in substandard tyres worth
over N5bn.
The
suspects, according to a statement on Sunday, were paraded following their
arrest, and the sealing of the warehouse where they had been cloning different
sizes of tyres under different brand names.
The
suspects, the statement added, churned out the substandard tyres into the
Nigerian market under brand names such as Powertrac, Aptany, Harmony, Duraturn,
Bearway, City Tour, Winda, Glory, Chachland, City Grand, Grandsonte and Sunny.
According
to SON, the suspects brought the substandard tyres into Nigeria by stuffing
them into one another.
“Sometimes
as many as five tyres were stuffed into one and the tyres would have bent and
ruptured in several places, thereby looking weak and slack.
“But
the Chinese adorned the tyres with new labels and shinny linings to create the
impression of being new and healthy,” SON said.
Some
of the tyres found in the warehouse had post-dated manufacturing dates.
The
agency’s Director General, Osita Aboloma, who conducted journalists round the
warehouse, described the tyres as dead on arrival, saying allowing the sale of
such tyres in the country amounted to “surreptitiously taking away the lives of
millions of Nigerians.”
He
observed that by stuffing the tyres into one another and conveying them through
the sea from China to Lagos, the quality of the tyres had already been
compromised.
-Punch
this is impressive. welldone SON
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